Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789386551 ISBN 13: 9781789386554

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2023

Synopsis

An extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network.

This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb’s curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism.

Radical Intimacies connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, a global network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. This book explores design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. Contributors are interested in design that operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations.

An inter/ extradisciplinary collection of original works, the audience will be academics, artists, designers and activists and adventurous professionals who are interested in the crossovers between design, arts, and social change. Students of design, art, media, and communication interested in social change. Higher level undergraduate and graduate students.

 

Content warning: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders are advised that the following publication contains the words & images of deceased persons.

About this title

About the Author

Oliver Vodeb is senior lecturer at the School of Design at RMIT where he teaches in the master’s programme of communication design. He is the principal curator of Memefest and Lipstik+ Bread. His latest books are Food Democracy (Intellect Books, 2017) and Radical Intimacies (Intellect Books, 2023).

Contact: RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1789386551
• ISBN 13: 9781789386554
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Vodeb Oliver